https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-closin...81291.html

Quote:21 Million Fewer Cellphone Users in China May Suggest a High CCP Virus Death Toll

The number of Chinese cellphone users dropped by 21 million in the past three months, Beijing authorities announced on March 19.
Deaths due to the CCP virus may have contributed to the high number of account closings.

Cellphones are an indispensable part of life in China.
“The digitization level is very high in China. People can’t survive without a cellphone,” Tang Jingyuan, a U.S.-based China affairs
commentator, told The Epoch Times on March 21. “Dealing with the government for pensions and social security, buying train tickets,
shopping … no matter what people want to do, they are required to use cellphones.

“The Chinese regime requires all Chinese to use their cellphones to generate a health code. Only with a green health code are Chinese
allowed to move in China now. It’s impossible for a person to cancel his cellphone.”

China introduced mandatory facial scans on Dec. 1, 2019, to confirm the identity of the person who registered the phone.
As early as Sept. 1, 2010, China required all cellphone users to register phones with their real identification, by which the state can
control people’s speech via its large-scale monitoring system.

Furthermore, Chinese people’s bank accounts and social security accounts are bundled with their cellphone plans; apps on Chinese
phones check SIM cards against the state’s database to make sure the number belongs to the user.

Beijing first launched cellphone-based health codes on March 10. All people in China must install a cellphone app and register their
personal health information. Then the app can generate a QR code, which appears in three colors, to classify the user’s health level.

Red means the person has an infectious disease, yellow means the person might have one, and green means the person doesn’t.
Beijing claimed that the health codes are intended to prevent the spread of the CCP virus, commonly known as novel coronavirus.

21 Million Cellphone Users
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announced on March 19 the number of phone users in each province in
February. Compared with the previous announcement, which was released on Dec. 18, 2019, for November 2019 data, both cellphone
and landline users dropped dramatically. In the same period the year before, the number of users increased.

The number of cellphone users decreased from 1.600957 billion to 1.579927 billion, a drop of 21.03 million.
The number of landline users decreased from 190.83 million to 189.99 million, a drop of 840,000.

In the previous February, the number increased. According to MIIT, the number of cellphone users increased in February 2019 from
1.5591 billion to 1.5835 billion, which is 24.37 million more.
The number of landline users increased from 183.477 million to 190.118 million, which is 6.641 million more.

According to China’s National Bureau of Statistics, the country’s population at the end of 2019 was 4.67 million larger than in 2018,
reaching 1.40005 billion.

The 2020 decrease in landline users may be due to the nationwide quarantine in February, during which small businesses were shut
down. But the decrease in cellphone users can’t be explained in this way.

According to the operation data of all three Chinese cellphone carriers, cellphone accounts increased in December 2019 but dropped
steeply in 2020.

China Mobile is the largest carrier, holding about 60 percent of the Chinese cellphone market. It reported that it gained 3.732 million
more accounts in December 2019, but lost 0.862 million in January 2020 and 7.254 million in February 2020.

China Mobile’s performance in the same months in 2019 was markedly different; it gained 2.411 million more accounts in January
2019 and 1.091 million more in February 2019.

China Telecom is the second-largest carrier, holding about 21 percent of the market. It gained 1.18 million users in December 2019, but lost 0.43 million users in January 2020 and 5.6 million users in February 2020.

In 2019, it gained 4.26 million in January and 2.96 million in February.
China Unicom, which hasn’t yet published the data for February, shares the same experience as the other two telecoms in January 2020
and in early 2019. The company lost 1.186 million users in January 2020, but gained 1.962 million users in February 2019 and 2.763
million users in January 2019.

China allows each adult to apply for at most five cellphone numbers. Since Feb. 10, the majority of Chinese students have taken online
classes with a cellphone number due to their schools being ordered to stay closed. These students’ accounts are under their parents’
names, which means some patients needed to open a new cellphone account in February.

See article for more........

Dr. Shiva is running for Senate in Massachusetts.  I didn't know if I would be interested in listening to this video last night, but once I started, I couldn't click away. This man is brilliant and reminds me of the "down to earth" approach like President Trump to how to overcome obstacles.
This video is more about correcting our medical industry than politics. I hope he wins! 

If anyone out there watching this lives in Massachusetts, you really need to give this man 2 hours of your time. He deserves to win in the Senate.

Quote:Dr, Shiva Ayyadurai is running for Senate in the state of Massachusetts, in the very heart of the DS elite establishment.  An immigrant from India at the age of 7, he and his family came here to make a life in the land the free and the home of the brave.  
The Inventor of Email, Dr. Shiva holds 4 degrees from MIT, is a Fulbright Scholar, and has started 7 successful hi-tech companies including EchoMail, CytoSolve and Systems Health. He is currently the Founder and CEO of CytoSolve, Inc., which is discovering cures for major diseases from Pancreatic Cancer to Alzheimer’s.
He is also the Founder of Center for Integrative Systems that is the home of Innovation Corps and C.L.E.A.N./R.A.W. certifications. 

Quote:On Monday night Laura Ingraham reported that a new study revealed the anti-viral medication chloroquine is successful in fighting the coronavirus.
** An Effective Treatment for Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Laura invited Dr. Gregory Rigano, the co-author of the study to discuss the latest findings.
Dr. Rigano said their study found that those COVID-19 patients who took hydroxy-chloroquine were found free of the disease in 6 days. The patients were testing negative for the coronavirus in six days!
Dr. Rigano also said taking choroquine could act as a preventative.
This is a remarkable study!


Via The Ingraham Angle:

COVID-19 Panic-demic Diary:

Day 1 of COVID-19 Panic-demic: The castle walls are now completed. The drawbridge is up, and alligators for the moat are being shipped in from Florida via next day air.

-----------------------------------------------------------

Day 2 of COVID-19 Panic-demic: I'm down to only 3 1/2 rolls of toilet paper, and the nearest store is seven miles away, a grueling journey through hostile territory. I'm now loading magazines for the trip, and in an hour or two when I'm through with that I shall wrap all of my remaining toilet paper around my head to prevent breathing in the virus while I am in transit. Cover me, I'm going in...

-----------------------------------------------------------

Day 4 of COVID-19 Panic-demic: After my successful return from the Great TP Raid of 3/20, I parked the semi-trailer load of TP I acquired under tree cover, and further covered it with a camouflage tarp to avoid detection from the air. Who knew that a tractor-trailer could plow through zombie hordes like that?

The alligators arrived, and have been installed in the moat. I had intended to flood the moat with hand sanitizer due to it's flammability and napalm-like consistency, but decided against it. I only have a few thousand gallons left, and cannot spare any for the moat if this thing continues for the 8 weeks predicted. Pity - not only would I have had a highly flammable moat, I would also have had the cleanest alligators in a five state radius.

I can't raid the neighbors' supplies of hand sanitizer without exposing myself to the COVID-19, so that is out. Additionally, most of them have stolen my idea to stock their own moats with alligators, doubling the danger. I expect that soon Florida, in addition to the TP and hand sanitizer shortages being experienced nation-wide, will be experiencing an alligator shortage if the panic-demic continues.

If the panic-demic extends beyond the projected 8 weeks, with some estimates going as far as two years into the future, I will have to dust off grandpa's old moonshine still and start replenishing my supply with home-made hand sanitizer.

The entire state of West Virginia is still experiencing a critical shortage of the COVID-19 virus, with no reported infections, much less deaths, state-wide. In order to rectify that concern, I understand there have been high level negotiations to directly air-drop the virus into that remote area with shipments straight from Wuhan, China, in order to bring them up to speed with the rest of the panicky nation.

Another problem for WV is the fact that most of their communications infrastructure is being provided by Frontier Communications, a sub-standard fly-by-night communications corporation. As a result, they are not getting the needed doses of pseudo-news required to instill the same degree of panic that the rest of the nation is experiencing.

Those folks are way too calm, and that has to be fixed...

-----------------------------------------------------------

More to come as the urgent Zombie Apocalypse Crisis unfolds.....


.

For some comedy relief, may I present Joe Biden.      

Quote:And following another episode of pandering, Biden slipped back into dementia continued with his story about Corn Pop:
"After I took down Corn Pop and his fellow bad boys, Honeycomb, AppleJack, and that dimwit, Special K, Corn Pop and I developed a mutual respect for each other and we became good friends. In fact, I briefly dated his sister, Pop Tart, but that was before she got hooked on Sugar Smacks and began forging Chex and turning Trix.

So, after shooting pool late one night with his twin cousins, Corn Flake and Frosted Flake, Corn Pop and I walked downtown to grab sandwiches at Subway. It was about 2 a.m. and along the way, we ran into Jussie Smollet, who smelled of bleach and had a rope around his neck, but we didn't think anything of it. Then, out of nowhere, Cesar Sayoc's white van covered in Trump stickers, which strangely didn't have a scratch on it, pulled up and Nick Sandmann and his Covington Catholic crew, all wearing red MAGA caps, jumped out. They stared at us like we were a couple of Fruit Loops and looked like they were about to walk over and kick us in the Grape Nuts.

I tell you, I was never so scared in my life. It was like running into Count Chocula and Franken Berry in a dark alley. Corn Pop was so scared that he dropped a load of Cocoa Puffs in his pants.

I was about to whip out my cell phone and call for military backup since I had Captain Crunch and General Mills on speed-dial, but at that moment I said to myself, 'I'm a Biden, man, and I'm not going to be intimidated and bullied.' So I grabbed a drum from Nathan Phillips and walked over and beat it in Nick's face while chanting the war cry of Elizabeth Warren's tribe.

Man, that was something! I look back on that night and thank my Lucky Charms that I'm here today to tell you about it. No joke! Cerealously, that's the truth . . . on my name as a Biden."

RedPill78 had a great 2-hour show last night with callers chiming in to tell their personal stories. Man, I was so tempted to call in, but Hubby had the t.v. on in the background and I know that would not work.

Anyway, if you like spooky stories, grab a drink, grab your partner, turn off the lights, and enjoy!

I used to have a fairly massive library of survival literature - you know, manuals and "how to" books and such. Over time, and many moves, several of them got lost, and so my current collection is less than impressive.

However, we're in the computer age now! what used to take up 3 or 4 bookshelves can now be carried around in a pocket or on a key chain on a flash drive - the only catch is you need a "device" compatible with that flash drive to read them. A great many manuals have been converted to digital format, usually PDF, and can be had for the download bandwidth from any number of sites across the internet. Once you have them, and have them loaded onto a flash drive, you have them forever (assuming you have the foresight to back up the flash drive to somewhere safe, in case it too gets "lost in a move"!)

Recently, Mrs G. posted a video in of all places a Bigfoot thread that reminded me of some of my losses - it reminded me of a Ranger manual on Dismounted Patrolling that I had many, many years ago. Over the years, I had searched for it in my wanderings across the internet, but to no avail. There just didn't seem to be any electronic copies of it available. BUT - the recollection spurred by that video prompted me to search for it again, and this time I found it. I immediately downloaded it, and that download has been backed up in numerous places to preclude any further losses of it. It is called "ST 21-75-3 Dismounted Patrolling" and can be found at the link.


Another little book I had all those years ago that was invaluable was called "The Scout". It was written during WWII by an Australian named Ion Idriess, and was part of a series of pamphlets he wrote on guerrilla warfare during the dark days of the war when Australia was certain that a Japanese invasion was imminent, and that all Aussies would soon need to have a crash course in guerrilla tactics. Those books are over 70 years old now, hard to find, and still worth their weight in gold despite the passage of time. Technology changes, but people don't, and those books have all sorts of information that is as true today as it was 70 - or 700, or 7000 - years ago.

The series was called "The Australian Guerrilla Series", and had 6 volumes in it. Since I found that old Ranger Dismounted Patrolling manual, I decided to try my luck at replacing the Aussie Scout pamphlet as well. I was shocked to see it going for $50.00 and up if you could even find it at all (one place had it listed at nearly 300 bucks - for a paperback pamphlet!), which was disappointing - probably even more disappointing than being utterly unable to find it in an electronic format. I found ONE old used copy of it for $4.99 plus a nominal shipping fee in hard copy, so I scarfed that up while the getting was good. I'm torn as to whether to scan it and make an electronic file of it or not. The series seems to still be under an Australian copyright, and that is a problem in making an electronic copy of it. I'd like to get the entire series, but so far have only been able to locate"The Scout" and "The Sniper", the latter of which seems to only exist in the exorbitantly priced variety. The rest seem to have fallen off the face of the Earth - probably in a move...

Over time, I've managed to garner a huge collection of manuals of this sort, which I have collected on a flash drive. There are military manuals (which are all in the public domain, and therefore not really a problem), there are novels for when one gets bored and wants something to read (all of them of the "armageddon is coming" variety, however), there are ancient war treatises like Sun Tzu's "The Art of War", Miyamoto Musashi's "A Book of Five Rings", Che Guevara's "Guerrilla Warfare", etc. There are other books, more geared towards survival than warfare, because a soldier's gotta eat - books like the entire Foxfire series, "The Poor Man's James Bond", old cook books and "how to run a household on a shoestring for poor wives" books from the 1800's... just anything I thought might give an edge in a survival/societal collapse sort of situation.

I think the collection I've built up is running near 6 gigabytes now, and thousands of volumes, but it can all still be fitted on a small flash drive - an 8 GB drive that can be had for a couple of bucks at Walmart is sufficient. I recently bought a few of those small drives and made copies of my master copy to hand out to friends and relatives that I think may one day need it. In VA, they're trying to make that sort of activity illegal. This most recent session entertained a bill that would make it a felony to teach anyone how to protect themselves - they called it "paramilitary activity and conspiracy" in the bill. I don't know if it passed, and I don't care - no alleged "law" will stop me from teaching folks how to defend themselves if I think they need it. Self-defense is the most basic right of ANY organism, humans included, and they'll not stop me from exercising it, or teaching other folks how to.

This thread was created mostly as a place to collect links to such survival/military material, for future reference. You never know when you may need it, and it's better to have it and not need it than it is to need it and not have it, and I'm not getting any younger, so the day will come when I'm not around to teach it. When that day comes, folks will still have these links to the knowledge so they can learn even in my absence.

Feel free to add links to useful military manual (especially Small Unit/Ranger/Special Forces/Guerrilla Warfare manuals) or survival how-to book collections you may encounter in your travels across the internet. I'll add them myself as I run across them, but many hands make light the work.

Self-reliance is the American Way.

.

Quote:

Quote:

Quote:

Quote:

Quote:Golf and What It All Means.
 
 
 
Golf   can best be defined as an endless series of tragedies obscured by the occasional miracle, followed by a good stiff drink.

[b]Golf[/b] you hit down to make the ball go up.   You swing left and the ball goes right.   The lowest score wins, on top of that, the winner buys the drinks.

Golf if you find you do not mind playing in the rain, snow, even during a hurricane, here's a valuable tip.. your life is in trouble!
Golf   -   ers who try to make everything perfect before taking the shot rarely make a perfect shot.

A ' gimme ' can best be defined as an agreement between two golfers... neither of whom can putt very well.

Golf's  an interesting thing.. No matter how badly you play, it's always possible to get worse.

[b]Golf's[/b] a hard game to figure. One day you'll go out and slice it and shank it, hit into all the traps and miss every green. The next day you go out and for no reason at all your game really stinks!

If your best shots are the practice swing and the 'gimme putt', you might wish to reconsider this game.

[b]Golf[/b] is the only sport where the most feared opponent is you.

[b]Golf[/b] is like marriage, If you take yourself too seriously it won't work, and both are expensive.

The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil.
 
SENIOR'S DAY AT THE COURSE.

 

Quote:

Quote:

Quote:

Quote:

Quote: 
David Letterman's   Top Ten Reasons Why Golf Is Better than Sex...
#10  ... A below par performance is considered damn good.
#09  ... You can stop in the middle and have a cheeseburger and a couple of beers.
#08  ... It's much easier to find the sweet spot.
#07 ... Foursomes are encouraged.
#06  ... You can still make money doing it as a senior.
#05  ... Three times a day is possible.
#04  ... Your partner doesn't hire a lawyer if you play with someone else.
#03  ... If you live in Florida , you can do it almost every day.
#02 ... You don't have to cuddle with your partner when you're finished.
 
And the NUMBER ONE reason why golf is better than sex...
 
#01  ... When your equipment gets old you can replace it!  

Hello Folks, I know this is an odd sort of "First Thread" but I would really like to share and I trust you won't crucify me. 
If you think I am nuts that's fine. 
I hope this, copy and paste thing works. 

1988

WIS